Vendor Landscape: Enterprise BI

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IBM Cognos BI v10.1

QlikView

SQL, SharePoint, Office

Business Objects

WebFOCUS

MicroStrategy 9

Hyperion

SAS 9.2

What is a Value Score?

The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point. It does not indicate vendor ranking.

Vendors that score high offer more bang for the buck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than the average vendor, while the inverse is true for those that score lower.

Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the Value Score more consideration than those who are more focused on specific vendor/product attributes.

Weight: You can adjust the weight to what is more important to you.

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When both vendor and product weightings are equal to exactly 100%, your custom shortlist will be generated.

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Vendor

Product

Viability

Vendor is profitable, knowledgeable, and will be around for the long-term.

Strategy

Vendor is committed to the space and has a future product and portfolio roadmap.

Reach

Vendor offers global coverage and is able to sell and provide post-sales support.

Channel

Vendor channel strategy is appropriate and the channels themselves are strong.

Total

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Features

The solution provides basic and advanced feature/functionality.

Usability

The solutions dashboard and reporting tool are intuitive and easy to use.

Affordability

The five year TCO of the solution is economical.

Architecture

The delivery method of the solution aligns with what is expected within the space.

Total

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What matters more, the vendor score or the product score? As you weigh the importance, we will generate the vendor shortlist to match your needs.

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IBM

IBM Cognos BI v10.1
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QlikView

QlikView
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Microsoft

SQL, SharePoint, Office
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SAP

Business Objects
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Information Builders

WebFOCUS
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MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy 9
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Oracle

Hyperion
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SAS

SAS 9.2
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What is a shortlist?
A shortlist is a personalized list of vendors based on the criteria above.

Your shortlist offers more information about vendor's strengths, weaknesses, price-points, etc, and ranks them according to your needs.

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Your Challenge

Business Intelligence (BI) solutions have the potential to help organizations of all sizes glean valuable insights from otherwise nebulous data sets.
Choose the enterprise vendor that has a strong focus on the self-serve BI feature your organization is looking to adopt and manage.
With a wide variety of products to choose from, enterprise-sized organizations must decide which offering will best facilitate insight-driven decisions that drive measurable improvements to company performance.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

While stack vendors do target the enterprise market, Microsoft’s ubiquity in enterprises of all sizes, combined with a solid product line-up, make it a compelling choice to fill the BI void in an enterprise organization.
Many other vendors in the space deliver exceptionally well in basic areas like data visualization and data management, while others focus on low friction integration and architecture. Carefully assess the value of each aspect of a solution and don’t be lured into choosing the wrong solution by bells and whistles.
Where basic features do not offer enough distinction amongst solution candidates, look to advanced features that are critical to your specific use case, such as collaboration or predictive modeling.

Impact and Result

Understand what’s new in Enterprise BI offerings.
Evaluate differentiators between the major players.
Determine which vendors offer the most appropriate solutions for your organization’s particular needs.

Get to Action

Evaluate enterprise BI vendors and available solutions
Understand the BI market, the players, and their products.
- Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Enterprise BI
Identify the solutions that best fit the organization's needs
Develop a customized shortlist to speed solution selection.
- Enterprise BI Vendor Shortlist Tool
Create an RFP
Deliver an RFP to vendors for vendor evaluation.
- Enterprise BI RFP Template
Score the RFP
Score responses from the vendor evaluation.
- Enterprise BI RFP Scoring Tool
Evaluate vendors through a demonstration of their solution's capabilities
Use the vendor demo script to determine BI capabilities of vendors.
- Enterprise BI Vendor Demonstration Script